By Tod Robberson
Dallas Morning News
June 18, 2014
I continue to outraged, as I was in my May 8 blog posting, about the release from prison of Bernie Tiede, the confessed and convicted murderer of Marjorie Nugent in her East Texas home in Carthage. Tiede was portrayed sympathetically by actor Jack Black in the Richard Linklater film, Bernie, which was a fictitious dark comedy that poked fun at a real-life tragedy.
KYTX
By Field Sutton
May 21, 2014
Two weeks ago Bernie Tiede cried as he heard a judge tell him to walk out of the Panola County jail a free man.
By Shanna Nugent, May 12, 2014
Texas Tribune op ed
Do you remember in the movie Bernie when Bernie Tiede, played by Jack Black, shot the cantankerous Marjorie Nugent in the back?
And how Marjorie writhed on the ground wounded and bleeding, but not dead, so Bernie shot her three more times at point-blank range?
By Ryan C. Perry
Longview News-Journal
April 17, 2014
PART 3
By Ryan C. Perry
Longview News-Journal
April 16, 2014
PART 2
By Ryan C. Perry
PART 1
NEW BOSTON — In a prison in this East Texas town lives an inmate people once called the nicest man in Carthage. He preached at his church, helped students through college and volunteered around the community. He sang at weddings and funerals, and was a regular performer and director in the Panola College Theatre Department.
By Kathi Nailling
Athens — Marjorie Nugent, a rich eccentric woman in Carthage, Texas, had been missing for nine months when her body was found in a freezer. No one had noticed the woman was gone.